Don't disturb the sorcerer's scientific research

Chapter 128 Jia Xiu's Amazing Attention

Siloshak sat up straight, his brow furrowed, and took out a pair of delicate little glasses.

Actually, as a brass dragon, he doesn't need glasses.

According to him, this would make him appear more like a professional scholar, and it would be very ceremonial.

A middle-aged dragon who is passionate about cosplay.

Just like that, time passed by minute by minute.

three minutes……

five minutes……

ten minutes……

The staff member who came to deliver the paper knew that the "wait a moment" agreement they had made with the person outside was now meaningless.

Why don't we have some tea and refreshments, or a small souvenir, and go apologize to them first? It would be really embarrassing.

The service attitude of the association staff was in stark contrast to that of the local elves.

But seeing Mr. Shilosak's serious and focused expression, he dared not move, afraid of interrupting his train of thought, and even deliberately lowered his breathing.

This brass dragon, although not officially employed by the Spellcasters' Guild and considered a contract worker, is different from ordinary contract workers. The specific content of the contract and the duration of the contract do not depend on the guild, but on whether he wants to or not.

The branch's status is higher than that of the branch president.

“That’s interesting. You can go out now,” Shilosak instructed.

With a wave of his hand, several books and pens flew out of the pile of books.

"I need to study this carefully. I'll call you when I have a conclusion."

It's already very difficult to understand this paper just by looking at it.

In fact, the overall idea of ​​the article is not complicated. It uses various methods to allow spellcasters to use spell systems that are not normally available, and many researchers have tried this.

Although enlightenment techniques are unconventional, they generally follow this line of thinking and can be considered a rather innovative idea.

The idea of ​​using a usable rune to replace an unusable one is quite sinister.

For a long time, many brilliant mages have tried to fully analyze the runes that have different effects under different systems, and to figure out all their functions. Then, they can find a way to unify all systems, or prove that they are not actually unified.

It may sound much more complicated and difficult than Jassiu's method, but it is not.

In Shiloshak's view, or more accurately, in the view of almost all normal spellcasters, every rune contains an extremely large amount of primal magical energy.

These magical energies fluctuate, entangle, twist, and pile up, their quantity vast and elusive.

Each rune, when broken down, is like tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of "strings" vibrating at different frequencies, amplitudes, and initial phases.

How these "strings" ultimately achieve a certain effect or influence has only been partially understood so far, relying more on empirical summaries.

The design of spells is based on the effects summarized from these experiences, combined with a small part of the guiding principles.

However, in theory, it is impossible to achieve the effect of replacing one rune with a set of runes using this method.

In Siloshak's eyes, Jashu's operation was simply piling up tens of thousands of "strings" and letting them combine to form the amplitude and phase of the target rune.

This is too outrageous.

If you could guess one or two, you could explain it as luck, but Jia Xiu gave you nearly twenty directly.

It covers most of the runes in the vampire magic and trickery.

He truly has a stable research method for replacing runes with rune sets.

Siloshak verified each spell that Jash had used as an example.

The conclusion is that all are available.

Where did this person come from?

This ability is simply unbelievable.

No, he had to meet this Jia Xiu and have a chat with him. He really wanted to know how this guy's brain worked...

……

At this moment, Jia Xiuzheng was showing off the tea break at the association. And you know what? The food at the association was really good quality.

As expected of a top-tier organization in mainland China, they have plenty of money.

As long as you eat enough, you can skip a meal.

It brings back memories of the days when I went to academic conferences with my boss.

The dissatisfaction of being kept out for more than half an hour by the so-called "wait a moment" also lessened somewhat.

I'll never believe those people in the association again; they're dogs.

What's the difference between this and "I'll just say a few words"?

Just as we were enjoying our meal, staff from the association came over.

"Mr. Jia Xiu".

"Huh? What happened? Did it finally pass?"

“Master Shilosak would like to see you to ask you some academic questions.”

The staff member gave an irrelevant answer.

Because she didn't know whether it had passed or not, she had never seen this ancient dragon in the association take a paper so seriously since she started working here.

However, it seems to be a serious effort aimed at a positive outcome.

If it was considered bad, that paper would have been forgotten by now.

"Does he have a question to ask?"

Jia Xiu was a little puzzled. Why was he being so polite? Aren't dragons supposed to be a particularly arrogant species?

"Yes, if you can meet me, please come with me. Rest assured, Master Shilosak is, well, a rather approachable master."

The staff member said.

"OK then."

Jia Xiu readily agreed.

He's never actually talked to a proper dragon before, and he's very curious. Margaret only keeps sub-dragons, none of which can speak.

Following the staff's guidance, a few minutes later, Jia Xiu saw the legendary ancient brass dragon.

To be honest, I couldn't tell it was a dragon at all, nor did I feel any dragon's might or anything.

If you didn't know better, he'd just be an ordinary old man, the kind who appears as a fixed NPC in the park every day to play cards or chess.

"You're Jia Xiu? The author of this paper?"

"Yes."

Siloshak closed in instantly, his speed so fast it was as if he were teleporting.

She doesn't look human anymore.

The brass dragon leaned closer to Jia Xiu and sniffed him. "Human? A purebred human, and quite young. How did you do that?"

"Uh, what? How did you do that?"

Jia Xiu was puzzled.

“Rune replacement rune, how did you come up with this idea?”

Siloshak pointed to an example in Jassiu's paper and asked.

"That's right, do it like this first, then like this..."

Jia Xiu fully explained his entire proof and derivation process.

The brass dragon nodded repeatedly. The argument was rigorous, the thinking was clear, and there was nothing wrong with it. The content of the argument was even higher than the paper itself.

But what's even more absurd than the derivation process is the initial angle of approach.

Schlossack believed he could have figured out the derivation process himself, but this approach was absurd.

It's so free that it's like someone using tape to stick things together and ending up with a new material—it's absurd. How can it be so tricky?

"No, what I'm more interested in is why you chose these few runes as your starting point. After all, magic runes are so complex, with tens of thousands of strings. How could you possibly pick out the exact right runes to begin with?"

Shilosak was already somewhat incoherent; even after living for over a thousand years, it was not easy to meet such a person.

This was a bit difficult for Jia Xiu to explain. He figured it out by sheer force of his eye of runes.

During his studies in Saint-Deros, he also learned that magical runes were an extremely complex thing, including things like string theory, but he didn't study them in detail.

The runes he saw were not composed of strings of magical power.

Jia Xiu speculated that the difference between the two was that his magic was done using a "high-level language," while the spells used by other spellcasters probably didn't even qualify as assembly language, but rather as "machine language." It was hard to say what number it was, because the "string" had more than two states, which was a bit too many.

Compared to trying to understand this "language," relying on experience is a fairly efficient way to learn.

Now, in response to the question about the brass dragon, Jia Xiu gave his answer.

"I just looked at the known runes and noticed that those few should be suitable."

It was finally his turn to say those words.

"What? You noticed?!"

Shilosak swore that this was the most inhuman speech he had ever heard in his life.

"Just, note, notice?"

Jia Xiu nodded.

He could understand Huang Tonglong's feelings right now. Back then, when he saw the various tricky and unorthodox approaches to proof in the textbook, he was very eager to know where the ideas came from, but when the book only gave him "noticed", he felt the same way.

Siloshak was filled with respect. "Well, your attention span is quite impressive."

Although he couldn't believe Jia Xiu's words, he eventually believed them. When it comes to magic, talent can be so unreasonable.

I just never expected that he would meet a "living" one today.

He is passionate about interacting with the human race because he can meet all sorts of completely unexpected individuals.

Among intelligent beings, humans are among the weakest in terms of average strength.

Even the halflings, who have always been considered weak, have a higher proportion of people who possess magic than humans.

They are weak and have short lifespans; their biggest advantage over other races seems to be their rapid reproduction.

This advantage sounds just like that of goblins.

However, the difference between humans and goblins is that humans can draw incredible "monsters" during their reproduction process.

When Shiloshak was still a sub-adult dragon, the strongest mage on the continent was a "monster"-level human.

3岁看别人施法时自己摸索出施法的方式，6岁成为法师学徒8岁就出师，12岁晋升大法师16岁就传奇。

For him, a magical problem was less difficult than figuring out what to eat for dinner tonight.

However, the fate of this great mage was also quite "legendary".

In an attempt to break through the known limits of magic, he "successfully" killed himself during the experiment.

In the eyes of the bronze dragon, Jia Xiu's potential is now no less than that of that legendary genius.

It is possible to "notice" which runes can serve as entry points.

Is this still human?

Moreover, he seems to be of sound mind and wouldn't do anything reckless or dangerous.

Seeing an opportunity, Shilosak believed that Jashy was very worthy of being invested in.

As an ancient dragon, his collecting obsession had moved beyond the stage of having to find a place to hide it, because he realized that the end result of that would be nothing more than hiding it until he died, until some later adventurer dug it up and made it a legend for them.

His new hobby is to use these treasures on those who need them more, to witness how people's lives are changed as a result, to create something more valuable based on these treasures, or to become decadent because of sudden wealth.

He treats the world as a giant game, and he is the story character who gives each "player" key items.

Now, he's going to give Jia Xiu, the player he considers to have the most potential, the most suitable item.

"wait."

After speaking, Shiloshak disappeared in a teleportation.

He went to his treasure vault to find a gift, leaving Jia Xiu standing there, unaware of what was going on.

What do you mean? At least complete the proper procedures for submitting his paper before disappearing.

A moment later, the brass dragon returned, holding a fruit the size of an apple in its hand, its skin resembling a flowing liquid starry sky.

He handed it directly to Jia Xiu.

"Eating is something I probably won't need at my age, but it will be of great help to your future."

Jia Xiu looked at the fruit, which didn't look very edible.

[The Reality of Yadin's Inspiration (Legend)]

[The fruit bestowed by Yatim, the god of knowledge, will protect every seeker of truth. Those who eat this fruit will have their minds ignited when they need a spark of inspiration, and their thoughts will never run dry.]

It sounds impressive, but the effect is too abstract. Is there a more direct description?

When faced with a problem of sufficient research value, intelligence and perception are temporarily boosted by +3 to +8, depending on the difficulty of the problem and the extent of research into it. You are immune to all effects that negatively impact intelligence and will no longer feel fatigued from mental exertion.

That's much clearer now.

Jia Xiu looked at the long string of effects that appeared on the fruit; this was the first legendary item he had ever seen.

Although I really want it, it's too expensive, and it's a one-time use item; once it's eaten, it's gone.

“Master Shilosak, this is too precious, I don’t…”

Before Jaxiu could refuse, Xiloshak shoved the fruit into his hand.

"Give valuable things to those who need them. You need them far more than I do. Eat up."

"Then how can I repay you?"

"Rewards? No, no rewards are needed. If you can make something with its help, that's the best reward. Even the most precious things only have true value when their worth is realized, right?"

Silosak added, "By the way, if you make any progress, remember to send me a copy, preferably with a draft of your ideas. I'll be looking at it to pass the time, since I'll probably be here for the next few decades."

This is his greatest joy now: witnessing.

"Your reading material for entertainment is quite unique."

Since the other party had said so, Jia Xiu didn't stand on ceremony and swallowed the Inspiration Fruit in a few bites.

Jia Xiu ate it so quickly not because he was in a hurry, but because he felt that fruit that looked like that probably wouldn't taste good.

Long-term pain is worse than short-term pain.

In fact, it really didn't taste good.

Not only does it have no flavor, but its texture is also very strange; it feels like a thick, sticky substance when you put it in your mouth.

I finally managed to swallow it.

"How does it feel?" Shilosak asked curiously.

"Ugh...it's sore throat."

"Who asked you how it felt to eat? I asked my brain, 'Does your brain feel smarter now?'"

Jia Xiu shook his head. "No, it might only be effective when I research some difficult problems."

"Okay, when you experience positive results, could you please record how you felt about those results..."

After chatting with the brass dragon for a few more minutes, Jia Xiu said goodbye.

As he was leaving, Shilosak suddenly said, "That amulet you're wearing..."

"This? It was given to me by Master Marcus Aurelius."

"Aurelius is your grandmaster? How did a brute like that manage to produce a research-oriented apprentice?"

As he spoke, Shilosak was examining the amulet, which had been marked by two groups of people.

Do you know what will happen next?

"Um... I have to go to a competition next?"

"That's alright then, remember to wear this amulet." He then placed a mark on it.

Jia Xiu also noticed that this was the second person to pay attention to the amulet; the previous one was Manager Taco.

Judging from this, what's about to happen isn't the competition; there might be some danger. He needs to prepare in advance...

(End of this chapter)